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7:30 PM ET, February 3, 2018

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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Democratic rebuttal calls Nunes memo ‘deliberately misleading’  —  WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat is challenging the core conclusion of the memo released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Friday, calling the allegation that the Justice Department and FBI withheld key details …
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Associated Press:
Trump seized on what memo could mean even before reading it  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before he'd read the memo, President Donald Trump seized on what it could mean.  —  The president first learned of the House Intelligence Committee document last month from some Republican allies in Congress …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
This is the week that the GOP truly became the party of Trump  —  This was the week when the Republican Party finally went all in with President Trump.  What once seemed unlikely is now reality.  The Republican establishment — there are a few dissenting voices, of course …
Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
Nunes memo aims at Russia probe, backfires on Trump and GOP  —  The controversial Nunes memo is out.  It claims the FBI and the Justice Department abused their surveillance authority on Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.  Democrats say the memo is misleading.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. told court of source's political influence in request to wiretap ex-Trump campaign aide, officials say … The court that approved surveillance of a former campaign adviser to President Trump was aware that some of the information underpinning the warrant request was paid …
New York Times:
Trump's Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement  —  WASHINGTON — In the days before the 2016 election, Donald J. Trump expressed “great respect” for the “courage” of the F.B.I. and Justice Department for reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Once the party of law and order, Republicans are now challenging it … Republican leaders' open defiance last week of the FBI over the release of a hotly disputed memo revealed how the GOP, which has long positioned itself as the party of law and order, has become an adversary …
Axios:
Exclusive poll: GOP turns on FBI  —  President Trump's hammering on the FBI — and green-lighting yesterday of the Russia memo's release over Bureau objections — is having a profound effect:  —  A SurveyMonkey poll for Axios finds that not even 40% of Republicans approve …
Discussion: Mediaite, Vox and RedState
Josh Campbell / New York Times:
Why I Am Leaving the F.B.I.  —  One of the greatest honors of my life was walking across the stage at the F.B.I. Academy and receiving my special agent badge from the director at the time, Robert Mueller.  After 21 weeks of intensive training, my class swore an oath and became federal agents entrusted …
The Intercept:
Nunes Memo Accidentally Confirms the Legitimacy of the FBI's Investigation
Asha Rangappa / New York Times:
Thank Progressives for the Nunes Memo
David Siders / Politico:
Nunes challenger seizes on FBI memo uproar
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Washington Is Abuzz Over the Nunes Memo. His California District, Not So Much.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Officials disclosed source's political funding in FISA application: report
Marcy Wheeler / HuffPost:
The Nunes-Ryan Civil Liberties Sham
Discussion: emptywheel and RedState
Washington Post:
Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:   The Memo Is Neither ‘Treasonous’ Nor ‘Worse Than Watergate’
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:   Worse Than Watergate  —  The FISA Abuse Memo is out and now …
Wall Street Journal:
A Reckoning for the FBI  —  The House memo reveals disturbing facts …
Discussion: Breitbart
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry  —  The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein.  —  Yes, Uma Thurman is mad.  —  She has been raped.  She has been sexually assaulted.  She has been mangled in hot steel.  She has been betrayed and gaslighted by those she trusted.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
White House to withdraw controversial nominee to head Council on Environmental Quality … This post has been updated.  —  The White House plans to withdraw its controversial nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, according to two administration officials briefed …
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump Hotel caught directly profiting off taxpayer dime  —  Ethics watchdogs have warned about Donald Trump's conflicts of interest since before he took office — and for good reason.  Despite claiming that he would divest from his businesses, Trump simply turned them over to his sons …
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CNN:   Document shows GSA employees spending at the Trump Hotel in DC
Nick Coltrain / Coloradoan Online:
Protests turn violent at CSU after Charlie Kirk speech  —  Protests around a conservative speaker at CSU on Friday night started peaceful, even if it got rowdy at times, but quickly turned violent when a group wielding riot shields, large flashlights and face masks emblazoned with skulls stormed …
Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
AN ARCTIC SPY MYSTERY  —  An arrest in Moscow shakes Norway's far north  —  Frode Berg volunteered in a soup kitchen in rural Russia.  He helped organize an annual cross-border festival and ski race.  His congregation supported a new church in a Russian town just over the boundary line that divides East from West.
New York Times:
As F.B.I. Took a Year to Pursue the Nassar Case, Dozens Say They Were Molested  —  For more than a year, an F.B.I. inquiry into allegations that Lawrence G. Nassar, a respected sports doctor, had molested three elite teenage gymnasts followed a plodding pace as it moved back and forth among agents in three cities.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, thecut and Axios
 
 
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Sara Cline / The Enterprise, Brockton, MA:
East Bridgewater women disfigure child in Voodoo ritual, say police
Discussion: Breitbart and WREG-TV
Wayne Drash / CNN:
Cuts to CDC epidemic programs will endanger Americans, former chief says
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Business Insider
Los Angeles Times:
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Maria Panaritis / Philly.com:
Bucks County Judge Clyde W. Waite was nearly arrested at his own home for being black. …
New York Times:
'They Can't Wait to Vote': Energized Democrats Target Dominant G.O.P. in Statehouses
Discussion: Raw Story
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo's O.K.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
Hannity on Memo: ‘If We Care About The Constitution,’ Mueller Probe ‘Must Be Disbanded Immediately’
 

 
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